Adam Jones — Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Adam Jones’ value goes far beyond the white lines. He has been a model citizen who shows his face at lots of meaningful events on the city’s calendar.
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Author: Stan "The Fan" Charles
Orioles’ 2014 Offseason Planted the Seeds for Team’s Downward Turn
Not only did Orioles management make bad calls on Cruz, Miller and Markakis, but they doubled down in various other transactions along the way.
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Washington Capitals’ Stanley Cup Victory is Bittersweet Affair for Baltimore Hockey Fans
The NHL did an inspection of sites and was stunned by what they saw in Baltimore. A stage for plays and concerts was deemed more important than first-class sightlines, and there was no rounding of the seating bowl.
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Ravens Gamble with an Increasingly Apathetic Fan Base
Maybe the Ravens will get lucky with QB Lamar Jackson, and whenever he does get on the field he’ll be so good as to fix both the team on the field and whatever ails its fan base.
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A Way to Rope in Schoop
If you happen to be an O’s fan worried a bit about our post-Manny Machado era in Baltimore, awesome would be hearing that the club was able to get Jonathan Schoop’s signature on the dotted line on a new five or six year contract.
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Bannister’s Bygone Era
To put Roger Bannister’s 3:59.4 record in 1954 in some context, milers had flirted with the idea of a sub-four-minute mile for nearly a decade.
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A Race to the Bottom?
A business that did $3.5 billion in revenue in 1994 — the time of the last baseball labor-related work stoppage — is now awash with dollars as baseball revenues during the past quarter-century have risen in excess of $11 billion.
Read MoreScooping Up Schoop
Had the Orioles been confident enough in Jonathan Schoop’s overall long-term value, the time to have pounced was after the low-end production in 2015.
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Was the late Ravens owner Art Modell Cleveland's version of Robert Irsay? (Photo by Sabina Moran/PressBox)
Cleveland’s Curse
I’ve got to hand it to the city of Cleveland — they really have this championship thing down to a science.
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Roger Goodell’s Failings Finally Catching Up with Him
Since 1960, the National Football League has had just three commissioners — Pete Rozelle (1960-1989), Paul Tagliabue (1989-2006) and Roger Goodell (2006-present).
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Will the Orioles ‘Attendance Whiplash’ Affect the Product on the Field?
Whatever the overriding reasons, Orioles fans picked a bad time to stop coming to games. The owner committed to an all-in payroll in 2017 of over $163 million, as the team again was back in the top 10 of MLB payroll.
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